![]() ![]() His next film as a director was also highly praised although the film's topic is far more "entertaining": The affectionate neighborhood comedy "Soul Kitchen" (a "dirty regional film", as Akin has put it), starring Adam Bousdoukos in the leading role, was celebrated by the audience at the Venice Film Festival, received stellar reviews from film critics and won the Special Jury Prize. The two lovers go on living, and that's the main thing!" "Gegen die Wand" won among a lot of other prizes the Berlinale Golden Bear, the German and the European Film Award for Best Film of the Year.įatih Akin's next film was the Documentary "Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul" (2005) about the music scene in the turkish capital, followed by the episodic, melancholic drama "Auf der anderen Seite" ("The Edge of Heaven", 2007), which again won several important awards, among them the Cannes award for the Best Screenplay and four German Film Awards. Nonetheless, this love story beginning in a psychiatric institution and ending on the Bosphorus, is - or so Akin believes - evidence of an important development in his stories: "I have become wiser, somehow, and part of that is that the heroes of this film don't die. In his film "Gegen die Wand" ("Head On", 2004) starring Sibel Kekilli and Birol Ünel, the director and author returns to his own somber beginnings. "Solino" was also nominated for this year's German Film Award. It is about two brothers, the children of Italian "guest workers", who grow up in Germany and struggle for success and happiness. In this way he prepared the field for his next feature film, that led him to the far south of Italy in 2001 - in many respects the story "Solino" (2002) corresponds to Akin's own biography. The one-hour documentary "Wir haben vergessen zurueckzukehren" (2001) is a TV production in which Akin tells the story of his parents, who came to Germany with the first wave of immigrants from Turkey during the sixties. Festival successes in Norway, France, Italy and even Canada and Los Angeles - where Akin's films each received audience awards - were evidence of the young director's ability to communicate with an international audience. It was followed in 2000 by the road movie "Im Juli" ("In July", 2000), filmed with an international team in Germany, Hungary, Romania and Turkey. ![]() This drama marked the beginning of his career, bringing immediate success and several awards, including the famous Adolf Grimme Award, two nominations for the German Film Awards and the Bronze Leopard at Locarno. He attended the Hamburg College of the Arts, and while shooting the short "Getürkt" ("Weed", 1996) he continued to work on the screenplay for "Kurz und schmerzlos" ("Short Sharp Shock", 1998). In 1993, his career began as an actor playing smaller roles in cinema and television films until 1995, when he presented his regular production company (Wueste Film) with "Sensin", his first short film as an author and director. The boon that he brings restores the world (elixir) ".Fatih Akin was born in Hamburg in 1973, and lives and works in the city's Altona district, the setting for several of his films. If the powers have blessed the hero, he now sets forth under their protection (emissary) if not, he flees and is pursued.Īt the return threshold the transcendental powers must remain behind the hero re-emerges from the kingdom of dread (return, resurrection). The triumph may be represented as the hero's sexual union with the goddess-mother of the world (sacred marriage), his recognition by the father-creator (father-atonement), his own divinization (apotheosis), or again - if the powers have remained unfriendly to him - his theft of the boon he came to gain (bride-theft, fire-theft) intrinsically it is an expansion of consciousness and therewith of being (illumination, transfiguration, freedom). When he arrives at the nadir of the mythological round, he undergoes a supreme ordeal and gains his reward. The hero may defeat or conciliate this power and go alive into the kingdom of the dark, or be slain by the opponent and descend in death (dismemberment, crucifixion).īeyond the threshold, then, the hero journeys through a world of unfamiliar yet strangely intimate forces, some of which severely threaten him (tests), some of which give magical aid (helpers). There he encounters a shadow presence that guards the passage. " The hero, setting forth from his common day hut or castle, lured, carried away, or else voluntarily proceeds, to the threshold of adventure. ![]()
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